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Mark Grignon
Congratulations on your ‘Next Play’. I love this phrase, ‘Next Play’. I was first exposed to this term when working onsite at LinkedIn in Sunnyvale as a contractor in 2016. The CEO at the time, Jeff Weiner, used this phrase, and many other amazing terms/concepts that I have incorporated into Kognitiv Inc. since then. The idea is simple, celebrate your people when they are on the way OUT, and not just on the way IN. When someone leaves LinkedIn there are Next Play parties for that person, almost like a retirement party, and people celebrate all that person did for them, and the organization while they were there. I LOVE THIS. How you treat people on the way out says WAY more about you as an organization than how you treat new hires. Everyone is excited about a new hire, that's easy. But being happy for someone on the way out is much more rare. I use the word rare vs hard for a reason. I could say it's hard, but it's not hard, it's easy to be nice to someone. Unfortunately what happens is people's pride gets in the way, and they end up ‘mad’ at the person, or the organization they are going to for ‘taking them’. This is, of course, not the right way to handle the situation. It's okay to be mad at yourself, or your own organization for not doing better, for not being the place this person wants to work. Good, be mad at yourself, do not be mad at the person leaving. Why did they leave? Learn from it and do better. In fact, you should thank them for making your company a better organization. Last Friday I interviewed a gentleman, and I asked a question I always ask in an interview…why Kognitiv, there are lots of Workday services organizations, why do you want to work here specifically? His answer made me incredibly proud. First, he said his leadership at his current Workday firm speaks very highly of us, and that is not the case for many others in the space. Great! I love that. Then he says he has also heard great things from Workday employees. Also Great! But then he tells me he just attended a Workday User Group, the Denver RUG, and met some EX KOGers, and those former employees said GREAT things about KOG. WOW!!! I'd say this made my day, but in reality it made my year. To me there is nothing better you can say about an organization than that. I don't even know who the former employee was, but I am very thankful for such kind words, really does mean the world to me : ) I wanted to write this post to say that if you are a business owner, manager, HR practitioner, or any other role who deals with turnover, just remember to celebrate people’s ‘Next Play’, it's far more rewarding long term than being a jerk about it.
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Bob Weinstein
I'm writing today about a critical issue facing Portland and Oregon: Initiative Petition 17. This November 2024 ballot measure would impose a 3% tax on corporate sales over $25 million in Oregon and distribute an estimated $750 annually to every Oregonian, regardless of need or wealth. As a candidate for Portland City Council, I strongly oppose this deeply flawed proposal. Here's why: Economic Damage: This misguided and destructive proposal would severely harm our state's economy, making Portland and Oregon less competitive and driving away businesses, jobs, and investments. Ineffective Poverty Reduction: Giving money to wealthy individuals who don't need it won't lift people out of poverty or accomplish meaningful change. Regressive Impact: The tax would likely be passed on to consumers, raising prices on goods and services for all Oregonians, including those already struggling financially. Untargeted Approach: More effective poverty-reduction programs, like the former federal child tax credit expansion, provide targeted assistance to those who need it most. Oregon has a brand new program targeted to help people in need: Did you know that in 2023 Oregon implemented a new targeted program to help low income people with dependent children? The Oregon Kids Credit is a refundable tax credit for low-income people with young dependent children worth up to $1,000 per child for up to five dependent children ages 0 to 5. Outside Influence: Similar to Measure 110, this initiative is largely funded by wealthy out-of-state interests using Oregon as a testing ground for policies they won't try at home. Governor Kotek has wisely called for a 3-year moratorium on new taxes to stabilize our economy. As your City Council candidate, I'm committed to promoting economic opportunity and family-wage jobs in Portland. This tax proposal would undermine those efforts while failing to provide meaningful assistance to those in need. I urge you to join me in opposing Initiative 17 and to help spread awareness about its potential negative impacts on our community. We must reject this counterproductive measure at the ballot box. Gerard Mildner Revitalize Portland Coalition Andrew Rowe Erik Cole Mike Lindberg
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Ashwin Menon
It’s almost Global Month of Volunteering (GMV)! For all my #Amazonians out there, we share our resources to benefit customers all year round, but GMV is a great time to do the same for the communities we’re part of too. Giving back to our communities is fundamentally Amazonian - just look at our LP “Success and scale bring broad responsibility”. The link below is an effort to support a non politically polarized effort - Cancer Research. A pain, many of us/ our families have unfortunately been impacted by. https://lnkd.in/g-VyyfFQ #sellinpartnerservices #spsgives #globalmonthofvolunteerig #amazon #corporateresponsibility #sps
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🩺 Corey Pearson 💻
So who else is moving out to CA with me?! In all seriousness, while I am happy to hear this for my healthcare employee friends and colleagues, this puts a tremendous burden on medical employers and should be just another justification as to why certain outsourcing should be considered. "By June 2026, most salaried health care employees must be making $78,000 annually to be exempt from the new minimum wage and overtime pay requirements." Outsourcing benefits may include but are not limited to: - scalability both for FTE staffing and overhead cost - expertise and often times, better results - access to tools and data - peace of mind with compliance and security - reduction of reliability on key employees and turnover risk #CAHealthcare #BenefitsOfOutsourcing #HealthcareOutsourcing #RCMOutsourcing #MinimumWageIncrease #OutsourceRCM
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Brittney O’Brien
🌟 Hi everyone! I'm Brittney O'Brien, a Parental Leave Consultant based in Sacramento. 🌟 I’ve had the privilege of consulting with over a dozen expecting parents in California, helping them navigate and maximize their parental leave. If you’re contributing to CASDI (check your paystub!) and have at least $300 in wages paid into it from the last 5-18 months, I’m here to assist you! Here are the top 3 themes I often encounter with my clients: 1. Employer/HR Knowledge Gap: Unfortunately, many employers and HR departments aren’t fully educated on California Leave laws. I frequently find that my clients are unknowingly leaving valuable leave time on the table. 2. Understanding State Disability and Paid Family Leave: Many clients are unaware that they’ve been paying into programs providing wage replacement, such as State Disability Insurance (SDI) and Paid Family Leave (PFL). 3. Maximizing Leave Time: Extending State Disability is a key way to maximize your overall leave time, and most clients aren’t aware of this possibility. If you have any questions or need guidance, I’m here to help! It’s been an honor to assist those I’ve worked with, and I look forward to meeting more of you. Let’s make sure you’re getting the most out of your parental leave! 😊 #ParentalLeave #Consulting #California #CASDI #ParentalSupport #SDI #PFL
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Seujan Bertram, MBA
Great information for current and upcoming job seekers out there - for those without Puget Sound Business Journal access, here's a few key points: - Workers in food and hospitality, retail, and construction have been able to find jobs quickly - Prospective employees in business and finance, education and software are having a harder time landing a job - 26% of newly hired workers found a job within a month, 72% applied to fewer than 10 jobs and 2/3 got multiple offers (my note: the higher the level, the thinner the air so this timeline is elongated for executives) - Those looking for fully remote jobs are facing intense competition because "you are competing against a bazillion more people" - 70% secured a job within 3 months, 22% within 4-6 months and 3% > 1 year - If you are not getting traction, it may be your resume materials, cover letter or LinkedIn profile (my note: Chris Stambolidis is a great executive coach who offers multiple packages to help job seekers with these items) - Using AI may hurt your chances if your materials come across as robotic or generic - instead showcase your "unique skills, experience and suitability for the role" - Finding and recruiting talent remains a persistent challenge for small businesses - it tops the list of operational challenges ahead of growing sales, supply-chain issues and government regulations
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Jeffrey McInnis
Coming out of my 1.5 year sabbatical, I’m excited to be making a career pivot into Economic Development by joining the California Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development. This is a field I’ve been interested in for a long time. But this pivot wouldn’t be possible for me if I hadn’t made important decisions over the last several years to enable it. I made really good money working in tech. It was tempting to spend that money–and commit future earnings–by falling into the trap of “lifestyle creep.” Take expensive vacations. Buy a Tesla. Take out a “jumbo loan” to buy a home in the Bay Area. But I knew an expensive lifestyle and debt payments could lock me into my lucrative, but narrow, tech career for decades to come. What if I lost my job, or wanted a break? What if I wanted to try a different line of work? Did I really want to limit my future choices in that way? So in Fall 2019, instead of buying a tempting condo in downtown San Francisco, I took a different path. I bought a historic house 90 miles away in Sacramento and began architecting a different life for my then-fiancé (now husband) and myself. We held onto our tech jobs for a few more years, but the plan was in motion. We were preparing for our next chapter, in a place we loved that offered us more flexibility. That’s the context in which I was able to take a 1.5 year sabbatical. The context in which I can now afford to take a public-sector pay cut. I can explore what life has to offer me outside the tech industry (and what I have to offer the world) because I recognized that money can open doors, but can also close them. I don’t know what the future holds, or how long this new chapter will be. But I have the freedom to find out.
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Anna Ward Gounev ☀️
Arguably one of the very few policies I agree with that California is trying to implement. I know many many salaried senior living folks who work 6-7 days a week, 12-15 hours a day or more, on call 24/7, answering calls at all hours of the night. It literally never stops. Great that their salary is high but when you calculate how much they’re actually working they’re making below minimum wage. It actually seems the President 🇺🇸 or a neurosurgeon would work less. It’s absolute insanity and companies take enormous advantage. I’ve actually asked these folks: isn’t there a labor law preventing this? at some point you surely get a day off?! 😳 and the answer is always No there isn’t 😱😱😱 I’d love to see that change for their sake and wellbeing ❤️🩹 and there needs to be major reform across all industries I’m sure #worklifebalance #laborlaws #work #law #policy
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Candace Massari
I took 8 years to get a 4 year degree. I graduated with a C+ average. As the stores start to shift to selling graduation decor and commencement dates approach, I’ve found myself thinking about my own graduation day. First high school, then community college, then on the Oregon State campus. I didn’t go the traditional route though. I enrolled in a pilot program where in high school you went for 3 years then your senior year you started taking classes that would count as college credits at the local community college. I believe it was called the Pace program. This way you could finish a 2-year degree and get your high school diploma within 5 years instead of 6 years combined. In exchange your classes and books were 100% paid for. After that I was faced with the decision of what do I want to do for the rest of my life, and what focus should I pick to complete my 4-year degree. I was terrified of debt after watching my parents struggle with their finances my entire life, so I focused on periods of working full-time so I could pay cash for college. I was so afraid of picking the wrong degree. I rotated between terms focused on school and terms focused more on the day job. Sometimes I did both. Sometimes I worked two jobs. I remember when I traveled for work as an auditor for Lowe’s I had a timed midterm for an online class that I was completing at the hotel business center when the power went out. Luckily my professor believed me and let me retake it. In my final term, I only needed 6 credits to graduate with my 4-year business degree. One of the two classes I needed was only offered in the spring and I had just switched to a new shift where my days off conflicted with the class. Two weeks into class after I had been using up sick time to leave work early, I decided to quit so I could leave on good terms and put 100% focus towards finally getting that piece of paper. That June I graduated with $23k of student loan debt. Here’s three things I learned about getting a degree: 1. Unless you go into a specialized field, most employers look at it now as a piece of paper. As long as you have it, it shows you’re smart enough and capable enough to finish projects and follow instructions. You’ll pick up a few soft skills along the way. 2. You don’t have to complete it in 4 years, and it’s almost better if you don’t. Taking my time to take breaks in between to work helped me gather very useful life skills that other students didn’t have. I was developing my critical thinking and customer service skills while they were still learning about hypothetical scenarios in a textbook. 3. You can get a degree and still not know what you want to be when you grow up. And that’s ok. Most of us won’t spend our entire career at one company. Instead our career path will evolve over time and potentially include two or more completely different industries. I graduated High School in 2005, and Oregon State in 2013. I couldn’t be more proud.
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Dumb Money Media "The King of Money" and "The Meme Sugar Daddy"
California's 2023 Job Gains Exposed as Purely Fake! A surprising fact has come to light, shaking what we thought we knew: California's job growth in 2023 was not real. Investigations have found a troubling practice in big tech companies. Employees were caught in "fake work." This means they did tasks that seemed important but didn't really help the company. This problem grew in Silicon Valley, worsened by the pandemic. It made everyone question the true number of jobs and what work counts as meaningful. Now, the truth is out. These jobs did not meet the companies' real needs or lead to any significant breakthroughs. https://lnkd.in/gP8bw44n #Unemployment #Government #Tech #Jobs #SprottMoney #SilverSqueeze
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Eric Wallentine
Homewatch CareGivers of Boise uses Fastest Labs of Boise and Fastest Labs of Meridian for all our employee drug testing. (Full disclosure: I own all of these companies.) I believe Homewatch CareGivers of Idaho's drug screening protocol is as stringent as any other home care in Idaho. First, we test all applicants prior to hiring them. Second, we test all employees after an incident. Third, we do a quarterly random test following DOT sample rates. Finally, our tests are done independently of our caregiving staff to protect the integrity of the collection, results and confirmation. All confirmations are done by another independent lab AND verified by a medical review officer. If you run a caregiving company in Idaho, and you have more stringent drug test requirements than Homewatch CareGivers of Idaho, brag a little below in the comments! 😊 We work with our competitors very cooperatively and want to celebrate with you for protecting our seniors! #homecare #seniorcare #drugfreeworkplace #drugtesting
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Henry Universes, PhD, CFA, CAIA, PRM, ERP
#BeverlyHill #California #Advertising #PresidentialElection Is there for me the job of President or Chief position with minimum base salary USD $250,000/year and fundraising target of USD $100 million in the first year? Expertising in fund management and Compound Option LEADERSHIP with Infinite Profit, I will greatly enhance your own organization's core competencies. I do funding via adding the huge benefit of tokenization, cross-border payment & climate change Compound Options to your scaling business. Funding cost is 15+% for the funding amount less than USD $10 billion, at least USD $1 million. The SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper way is donating to TAHK Foundation for enjoying USD $900+ trillion option leadership, then we will help you with your target: Donating $150 thousand USD per year service. Email to donate@tahkfoundation.org for your donation. As an Universal Interacting & Media Solutions nonprofit, TAHK Foundation will help you interact with the best options for your requirements. Oscar Talvitie Hal Gentry Evan Lewis Joe Erlinger Olivier Pechou Bradley Placks Jonathan K. Winfiele Alex Membrillo Matt Brunini Bill Shihara Tasha Kidd Vincent Diallo Pavel Matveev Chris Kline Bart Silvestro Tomas Maranhao #Job #2024Elections
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Chase Hendrickson-Jones
I’m curious: when you were in high school, did you know about any of the careers on this list? Healthcare is an ever growing industry and is projected to keep growing here in CA, but I never knew how diverse this job sector was. I thought because I personally didn’t see myself as a nurse or doctor that healthcare wasn’t for me…having no idea what a Respiratory Therapist, or a Surgical Technologist even was! I wonder how many young students out there are like me today without any idea of the many potential lucrative and rewarding fields they could enter. If the Job Market was an actual market with “jobs for sale” id say the Healthcare market needs a little bit of help from marketing…how do we change the messaging and get the word out there?
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Nicholas Stoffel
Fascinating read on the best run cities in the United States...Idaho with 2 out of the top 3 is impressive. No wonder so many Californians have flocked there in recent years. The top "Well Run City" in the Country according to this article is in Nampa, Idaho. Nampa is a safe city, with the sixth-lowest property-crime rate and the 22nd-lowest violent crime rate in the country. On top of that, the city has the seventh-fewest motor vehicle fatalities per capita. To top things off, Nampa does very well economically. It has the highest median annual income growth in the country, at 17%. It’s also among the top cities when it comes to growth in the number of businesses. The city has the third-highest forecasted change in the median home value, too, at 4.2%. Any surprises on the list for you?
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Jeffrey Yen
Looking for scale and impact? I wasn't...but here's a few data points from different points in my career... 1. Early 90s, parents borrowed money to build a small 70 unit hotel in North Seattle. As a pre-teen, I worked...volunteered my summers, recaulking bathrooms, clearing out shower drains clogged with hair, painted whatever needs to be painted, did yardwork, etc. 2. First legal job: Worked front desk at a 891 unit convention hotel - a power player in the Seattle Downtown core, the The Westin Seattle. Checking hundreds of guests in and out every day. 3. First "tech" job: Expedia Group 🛫 🚘 🛌 - the largest* (at the time) online travel company in the world. Hundreds of thousands of partners, millions of travelers. 4. First FAANG job, Facebook - now Meta, ~ nearly half of the world uses a Meta product on a monthly basis. A trillion-dollar company selling clicks. What was common in each one of these, is that the goals were clear, and so was the path to get there. Solutions could be wittled down to Option A or Option B. Now fast forward to today... 5. Climate 🌎 - every person on the planet, and even people not even born yet. Every organism, every ecosystem, even rocks that have been in the ground for millions of years, the air we breathe, the water that provides life for the planet. Every company, every dollar. How's that for impact?? What impresses me the most...is not the impact of working in climate. But it is that climate solutions are inherently win ($ - profitability), win (people), win (planet). Caring about the bottom line or next quarter earnings is important...but absolutely miniscule compared to the impact we want to make 5, 10, 20, 40, 100 YEARS.
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Carlton Baxter
For a family of 7 maximum allowed income for residency is $101,940. The Census ACS 1-year survey reports that the median household income for King County WA was $110,586 in 2021 which was $40,869 greater than the US median household income. #seattlewa #affordablehousing #realestate #corporatephilanthropy #publicprivatepartnerships
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Chenna Reddy
Position: Test Support Specialist Location : Salt lake city, UT (Remote - Late May/Early June - will need contractors in Salt Lake City, they will, however, reimburse travel, otherwise) Mode: Project w/estimated 10 temp associates for a couple months (5 to start early May and 5 more to start mid-end of May) Locals or Near by locations Team: AP Capstone (The AP Capstone™ Diploma program is an innovative program that allows students to develop the skills that matter most for college success, such as research, collaboration, and communication. AP Capstone™ is a diploma program from based on two yearlong AP courses: AP Seminar and AP Research.) Project Scope: Objective 1: Need roughly 5 Test Support Specialists to call principals to communicate crucial steps that their teachers need to take (despite numerous email attempts) to ensure that Capstone students attain an AP score. The deadline for teachers to upload test results to the AP Capstone system is 5/10 . The team will have a script (verbal) and templates (written) to go by and track their work in a shared file. Objective 2: Evaluate student-written papers that have been submitted to confirm whether they have used plagiarism/AI that is not in compliance with our exam violation policies. There are various detection tools, and the test support specialists will analyze the flags and research/verify. They are not scoring any work , and are strictly confirming or denying issues the tools surface based on provided guidelines. There is an opportunity to conduct this work in person in Salt Lake City, Utah for about one week in late may/early June. Travel, lodging and a meal stipend will be covered. Profile: While the calling schools seems like an easy task, the selected candidates must be professional with stellar communication with an education background in teaching or administration. This is needed more for phase 2, but helpful for phase 1, also. Thanks, Chenna Reddy chenna.reddy@kellton.com
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Sanchali Basu
A GLASS OF WATER - half full VS half empty This incident is one of the biggest example we give in our daily life. "Is the glass half full or half empty?" is an idiom that compares an optimistic and pessimistic perspective on a situation. "Half full" is optimistic, while "half empty" is pessimistic. Optimists tend to focus on the positive, like the water that's still available to drink, while pessimists focus on the negative, like the water that's missing from a full glass. Psychologists sometimes use this idiom in tests to determine if someone is an optimist or a pessimist. If pessimistic are present in the hiring team, it's high time to get a proper HR counseling. I had personal experience of these kinds of people in the Hiring Team, who all are pessimistic in nature.
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Brandon Bell
What was your first ever sales job? What lessons did you learn and take with you in your career? I’ll go first! When I transitioned out of music full time, I turned to the first place that would take me in: Netbiz, a sales call center located in the Portland metro area. (I know a lot of sellers cut their teeth as an SDR/BDR–but I can tell you that working in a call center is an entirely different animal!) You were asked to make over 100 cold calls every single day, and Netbiz offered potential customers guaranteed first page placement on Google under specific search terms. A successful sale yielded $180 in my bank account. It was insanely hard work. I have never been told no so many times in my life on a daily basis and yet.. I learned a TON from that job: tenacity, discipline, and learning that kindness and trust builds rapport quickly. I thought this gig would be a stepping stone while I figured out what I wanted to do with the rest of my career but–surprise, surprise–here I am still doing tech sales 15+ years later. This short story leads me to my next… ------------------------- Sales Hero of the Week: Amadou “I’m Do This” Diop (I have forever known him as Issa 😆) Background: Issa produces an orbit around him everywhere he goes. For anyone that knows him, he’s always the best dressed person in the room, but easily the most positive as well. He was one of the first sellers I had the chance to be around, and his positivity, enthusiasm and attitude were absolutely infectious on the sales floor. What makes Issa a Sales Hero: Issa was one of the first salespersons to teach me (directly and indirectly) to dream bigger. To go above and beyond, to not be afraid to ask hard questions both of yourself and of your customers. He always aspired to be the best salesperson at the company, but it wasn’t for selfish reasons. It’s because he saw no other option. It was greatness or bust. He taught me that it was more than about making phone calls--Netbiz was offering us a chance to make some real $$ and to help our customers with marketing their business. Lessons Learned: I quickly learned after observing Issa in my first-ever sales job that his “dream bigger” attitude wasn’t just a front for sales. He lived that everywhere he went. In his relationships, in his music career (he’s a hugely successful recording artist! I remember him just starting out 15 years ago creating beats and showing me some of his music back then–he continued to push boundaries and dream bigger and you can now find him on iTunes, Spotify, etc!), and how he operates as a person. He lives fearlessly, and I’ve strived to bring that same perspective and attitude to how I approach sales 15 years later. __________ I don’t often get contemplative on LinkedIn–but where do you need to dream bigger? Is it with a customer you’re currently trying to close? Is it with your role at your current company? Where can you push yourself a bit further? #salesheroes #dreambigger #salesenablement
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